Possibly Touch Mark of George Smith, marks to the reverse and owner’s initials MHI, 42cm diameter; a George III large dish, circa 1770, 37.5cm; three plates including one with marks for Samuel Smith, circa 1727, 23.5cm; together with ten pint sized tankards, mostly Victorian with verification marks, a quart sized tankard, two gill, a half and a quart gill measures with another smaller, two funnels, a muffineer, an ecuelle porringer and another 1/2 pint drinking mug
Estimate: | £200 - £400 |
Hammer price: | £350 |
George Smith is recorded as an apprentice to Thomas Jackson 1642-1651, gaining his own rights as a pewter Freeman and establishing a workshop in 1651, he was pewter Warden in 1669, Master 1672 and died in 1698.